Kodak-film.



PATENTED, JUNE 11, 1907.

J. B. KETGHUM.

KODAK FILM. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 14, 1905.

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KODAK-FILM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed November 14,1905. Serial No. 287,254.

To all whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that 1, Jesse BEVERLY KE'rcHUM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and l a resident of Joplin, in the county of Jasper and State ofMissouri, have invented a new and Improved Kodak-Film, of which thefollowing 1s a full, clear, and exact description. This inventionrelates to kodak films, and articularly to that class of films which areorned in a continuous web to be advanced after each exposure. H The filmis intended to be used in a. camera having a ground glass focusing plateacross which the film is passed. An opening is provided in the film orits web, which may be brought into position over the ground glass; inthis way one is enabled to focus an image on the ground glass withoutremoving the film from the camera.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of a film ofthe class described and mrticularly to increase its durability with thepurpose of preventing tearin the edges of the focusing opening.

The invention consists in the construct-ion to no described more fullyhereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side view of a film constructed according to my invention;Fi 2 is a lorwitudinal section through a portion of the film and takenon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring more )articularly to the parts, 1 represents the emf portionof the film which terminates at the line 2. On the rear side of thisfilm there is placed a web 3 which extends continuously with the filmand protects its rear side from the light at the peep opening of thecamera. The end portion 4 of this web projects well beyond the end ofthe film as shown and I strengthen this point by a reinforcing piece 5attached on the forward face of the web, overlapping the film andattached thereto with a suitable adhesive.

ln the web and reinforcing piece beyond the film an opening 6 isprovided which is of rectangular form as shown and of about the samedimensions as the plate or photograph made with the camera. The edges ofthis opening are reinforced by strips or binders about which the edgesof the web are folded as shown in Fig. l.

From this arrangen'ient, when the web and film are moved back and forthto bring the opening ti over the ground glass in focusing, the edges.will not tear for they are reinforced by the strips 7..

llaving described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent A lilm for a kodak having a web with a focusing openingtherein and binding stri s at the edge of said opening reinforcing tiesame.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

J ESSE BEVERLY KETCIIUM.

Witnesses:

\Y; N. STOKES, W. W. GILBERT.

